NHL Draft Lottery – Open Thread

The Leafs will be picking first, fifth or sixth in the draft depending on the lottery result tonight. Obviously, the likelihood is that we stay put at fifth (74.7%).There’s a 17.2% chance we fall further back to sixth.

Cross every limb and hope we can overcome 91.8% worth of odds. The lottery airs tonight at 8 p.m. on TSN.

NHL Draft Lottery History

YEAR

WORST TEAM

LOTTERY WINNER

1ST OVERALL TEAM

1ST OVERALL PICK

WINNER’S PICK

1995

Ottawa

Los Angeles*

Ottawa

Bryan Berard

Aki Berg

1996

Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa

Chris Phillips

-

1997

Boston

Boston

Boston

Joe Thornton

-

1998

Tampa Bay

San Jose#

Tampa Bay

Vincent Lecavalier

-

1999

Tampa Bay

Chicago**

Atlanta

Patrik Stefan

Pavel Brendl***

2000

Atlanta

NY Islanders

NY Islanders

Rick DiPietro

-

2001

NY Islanders

Atlanta

Atlanta

Ilya Kovalchuk

-

2002

Atlanta

Florida^

Columbus

Rick Nash

-

2003

Carolina

Florida^^

Pittsburgh

Marc-Andre Fleury

-

2004

Pittsburgh

Washington

Washington

Alexander Ovechkin

-

2005

-

Pittsburgh+

Pittsburgh

Sidney Crosby

-

2006

St. Louis

St. Louis

St. Louis

Erik Johnson

-

2007

Philadelphia

Chicago

Chicago

Patrick Kane

-

2008

Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay

Steven Stamkos

-

2009

NY Islanders

NY Islanders

NY Islanders

John Tavares

-

2010

Edmonton

Edmonton

Edmonton

Taylor Hall

-

2011

Edmonton

New Jersey++

Edmonton

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Adam Larsson

2012

Columbus

-

-

-

-

* – Los Angeles could only move up a maximum of four spots (moved from 7th to 3rd)

# – San Jose was selected in the 1998 drawing, but Tampa Bay held the right to swap first round picks with the Sharks and exercised that right to go to first.

** – Chicago could only move up a maximum of four spots (moved from 8th to 4th)